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Durex 'The Birds and Bees Talk' Partners with the 23rd Hornbill Festival 2
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Kohima (Nagaland) [India], December 3 (ANI/NewsVoir): On World AIDS Day, Durex with its youth and adolescent-focused initiative The Birds and Bees Talk (TBBT) program is supporting the 23rd edition of Nagaland's iconic Hornbill Festival at Naga Heritage Village Kisama. The ten-day 'Festival
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Study explores effect of carbon dioxide on bumble bee reproduction
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Even though a beekeeper puffing clouds of carbon dioxide into a hive to calm the insects is a familiar image to many, less is known about its other effects on bees.
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KVIC distributes over 330 'bee-boxes' under Re-Hab project to village in U
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Monday inaugurated the ambitious Re-Hab Project (Reducing Human Attacks using Honey Bees).
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Study finds that honey bee life spans are 50 per cent shorter today than t
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new study by entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50 per cent shorter than it was in the 1970s.
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Study: Flies smell motion of odours to navigate
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The survival of all animals and insects, from wolves to bees, depends upon their ability to find the source of odors, which is a challenge when wind disperses and obscures their source. Past research has shown that animals and insects navigate their way to these targets by sensing the inten
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Research: Fertilisers affect how bees see flowers
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new paper in PNAS Nexus, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that chemicals used in agriculture, like fertilizers and pesticides, can change the way bees 'see' a flower, and that this reduces the number of bees visiting a flower.
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Study finds how physical traits of flowers affect health of bumble bees
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The research showed that the length of a flower's corolla, or petals, affects how this pathogen is transferred between bees because shorter corollas mean that fewer bee faeces wind up inside the flower itself and in the path of bees looking for nectar.
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Study: Novel insecticides have devastating effects on honey bee health
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to recent study, insecticides containing flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor can have a devastating effects on honey bee health.
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Study reveals how insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
As with most living creatures, bees carry an innate electric charge. Having found that honeybee hive swarms change the atmospheric electricity by 100 to 1,000 volts per meter, increasing the electric field force normally experienced at ground level, the team developed a model that can predic
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Scientists uncover evidence that the Late Cretaceous hosted icy conditions
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): Let's pretend it's the Late Cretaceous, roughly 66 to 100 million years ago. We've got dinosaurs roaming the land and odd-looking early species of birds, although the shark as we know it is already swimming in the prehistoric oceans which cover 82% of Ear
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CU UCRD's bio-insecticide to revolutionise India's fruit production
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], August 10 (ANI/PRNewswire): There is no doubt that horticulture is considered a good option as compared to food crops, but the infestation of insects and bees on fruits has affected horticulture badly. Fruits like guava and mango are cultivated in various states of India
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Bring Back Bees project sets up apiary units selling NFT digital tokens
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 18 (ANI/NewsVoir): Bring Back Bees (BBB), a web3-based environmental project dedicated to protecting bees, has completed installing 33 apiary units in Krishnagiri and Tiruvallur districts in Tamil Nadu, from the fund it had generated through the sale of 33
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